Meir Lichtenstein

Meir Lichtenstein (December 1970-) was Mayor of Lakewood Township, New Jersey (D) from 1 January to 31 December 2006, succeeding Charles Cunliffe and preceding Raymond Coles.

Biography
Meir Lichtenstein was first elected to the Lakewood Township Committee in 2004, and he served as Deputy Mayor from 2004 to 2005, as Mayor in 2006, and as Deputy Mayor from 2007 to 2008. A Democrat, he sought to balance the concerns of merchants, customers, and visitors to the downtown area while ensuring the rights of the township's day labor force, which often went unpaid or was mistreated. During his term as Mayor, he was the only Haredi mayor of a municipality with a significant non-Jewish population (almost half).